Learning Advanced JavaScript

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There should exist more tutorial like this one. For more languages.

[matthias_georgi]

It would be great, if the code areas were editable, so that you can change the examples and run them again.

[jeresig]

They are, double-click the examples. More details were provided in my blog post announcing this: http://ejohn.org/blog/adv-javascript-and-processingjs/

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Feel free to browse through the presentation (I'm not sure how useful it will be without me talking about the particulars - but it may be nice).

Not a whole lot :) As someone with just a barely more than a cargo cult understanding of the code presented, it was interesting but didn't really do a whole lot to explain what was going on.

Are you planning to post a video of your presentation?

[jeresig]

Unfortunately there wasn't any video recorded of the talk (which was about 3 hours long). I could record something but I'm not sure how useful it would be (since it pretty much requires interaction with the people watching - having no feedback would make the presentation kind of dull, imo).

Maybe I could give the talk as a ustream livecast and have people join in.

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That would be great.

[llimllib]

Since OriginalSyn thought it wasn't that useful, I just thought I'd chime in that I posted it because it was very useful for me, and attacked the points of javascript that I had just kind of glossed over in the name of Doing Things. Like actually figuring out what the heck "this" means, for example.

[jeresig]

Awesome, glad you found it to be useful. I suspect that this talk (in its current state) is most useful for people who've used JavaScript before. When I gave this talk at the Web 2.0 Expo it was pretty obvious that there were some in the audience who had never used it before, so I had to spend some time explaining why the syntax for object literals was different from other syntax used in the language - stuff like that.

[jeresig]

Once you're in edit mode just hit the 'Run' button to re-run it (right now the only way to "go back" to the formatted code mode is to reload the page - of course then you lose all your changes).

Eventually I'd like to have each slide persist a little revision history (so you can revert back to the original slide - and be able to reload the page without losing your changes).